Car-seat back.



A No. 648,927.

(No Model.)

. PatentedA May 8, |900. G. H. DAVIS.

GAR SEAT BACK.

(Application leib Aug. 8, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. DAVIS, OF NEV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, FRANK R. FORD, AND GEORGE W. BACON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND |THE HALE da KILBURN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-SEAT BACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,927, dated May 8, 1900.

' Application filed August 6, 1898. Serial No. 687,893. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom t may concern: end 0f the seat-back. In my preferred Con- 5o Be it known that I, vGEORGE H. DAVIS, of struction the corner of the seat-back is cut New Orleans, Orleans parish, Louisiana, have away or reduced, and the handle is attached invented an Improvement in Car-Seat Backs, vat the cut-away or reduced portion, so as to 5 of which the followingis a specification. preserve the symmetry of the outline of the My inventionrelates to car-seat backs; and seat-back and not to form any projection or.' 55 it consists of theimprovements which are fully extension therefrom. The preferred form of sct forth in the following specification andare the handpiece or handle is that shown in theshown in the accompanying drawings. Y drawings, consisting of an angular casting io Much difficulty and annoyance are experior metal piece, of which two sides d d form cnced by the traveling publicin crowded railthe outer portion, which is grasped by the `6a way-cars owing to the lack of satisfactory hand, and the third side d2 constitutes the provision forsupporting the passengers standbase, which is fitted upon the face of the cnting in the aisles. Street-cars are usuallyproaway or recessed corner ofthe seat-back. x5 vided with pendent hand straps hanging Extensions d3 of the sides del form fastening- Vfrom a rail or support in the top of the car; lugs by which the handle .may be secured to 65 but such straps are only conveniently placed the top and side of the seat-back byscrews when the seats extend longitudinally and are or otherwise, as shown in Fig. l. The base more or less inconvenient, as they necessitate d2 may be provided with a lug or lugs d4, zo the stretching of the arm upward and are unadapted to engage recesses in the face of the suited to persons of lshort stature. frame of the seat-back to give greater rigid-` 7o It is an object of my invention to provide ity and lateral strength and to facilitate the a car-seat back wi-th a handpiece or handle application of the handle. In this construcsuitable to be grasped by the hand of a pastion the sidescl d may be fitted snugly against z5 senger standing inthe aisle and to furnish the' ends of the boundary-rib a of the'seatthe requisite support. back, thus foriningasubstantial continuation 75 It is also an object of my invention, in thus p thereof, and the corner of the handle may be providing the seat-back with a supportingrounded, as at d5, to .correspond with the ophandle, tofpreserve the symmetry of the seatposite corner of the seat-back and to render 3o back and to avoid the formation of any obthe rest more comfortable to the grasp.

jectionable extensions or projections which l The details of construction may be varied 8o would form obstructions and be liable to enwithout departing from the invention, and,

gage the apparel of the passengers. if desired, the hand-grasp o r handle may be My invention is illustrated in the accomformed by cutting off a corner or portion of 35 panying drawings, in which- `the frame of the body of the seat-back and Figure 1 is a front elevation of a car-'seat extending theboundary-rib a over the cut- 85 with the back thereof embodying my invenoff or recessedportion, as indicated by dottion, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my ted lines in Fig. l. improved hand-rest or handle detached from Having now described my invention, what 4o the seat-back. f I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters A is a car-seat back, here shown as a shift- Patent, is as follows: 9o v ing seat-back, carried by shifting side arms l. In a car-seat, the combination with a B B and adapted to be shifted from one side seat-back having a portion of its vouter edge of the seat-cushion C to the other. cut away or recessed, of a handle or hand- 45 D is thehandpiece orhandle, carried by the rest secured to the seat-back at said cut-awayseat-back and located in an ordinary car-seat or recessed portion and having its outer por- 95 at the outer or aisle end, so Athat it may be tion constituting a substantial continuation grasped by passengers standing in the aisle. of the edge of the seat-back.

In some cases the handle is located at each 2. The handpiece or handle for a car-seat back consisting of a piece D having the two outer sides d cl forming an angle With one another, and the inner side d extending between and uniting the sides CZ d and forming :t base for attachment to the frame ofthe car'- seat, in combination with a seat-back having its corner out away and having the base cl2 of the handpiece fitted to said eut-away corl nel` with the outer portions d d forming a, substantial continuation ofthe outer edge ofthe lo seat-back.

In testimonyof which invention I hereunto set my hand. Y

Y GEORGE H. DAVIS.

"Witnesses:

JOSEPH SCHUTTEN, GEO. J oHNsToN, Jr. 

